Windows bites Fedora

Aioanei Rares schaiba at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 23:16:48 UTC 2008


On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:06 PM, A.J. Werkman at digifarma.nl <
AJ.Werkman at digifarma.nl> wrote:

> On both the Asus M2A-VM and M2N-VM DVI motherboard I noticed the following.
>
> I have configured the system to dual boot between windows and fedora. When
> I switch from windows to fedora, fedora can not get control over the build
> in NIC anymore. So DHCP can not configure the NIC. A software reboot and a
> hardware reboot don't solve the problem. The only remedy is to fysically
> disconnect the power cord wait a few seconds and power up directly into
> fedora again. As soon as windows boots the problem reoccurs.
>

What does "Fedora can not get control over the biuld in NIC anymore" ? What
is the dmesg saying? The logs? lspci -vvv?

>
> I saw this too on some other motherboards I don't recall the name of.
>
> I tested three M2A-VM boards and found this problem on all three of them.
> This is 100% reproducible.
>
> It looks like Windows leaves the NIC in a state that fedora can't handle.
> Anyone seen this? Anyone who has a solution to this?
>
> Koos.
>
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